[plug] Advice needed for laptop

[Tim Bowden]

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:17, Richard Meyer wrote:
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OK, so I'm a little late for this thread, but here goes anyway ;-)
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> Hi guys, I'm in the market for a decent laptop.
> 
> I've looked through linuxlaptop.com, but there doesn't seem to be any
> discussion about how well particular lappies work with linux.
> Linuxlaptop.org and .net are worse than useless, just pushing hosting and
> domain names.
> 
> I have my eye on the Toshiba A10 at the moment (the price is nearly right)
> - I would like any feedback from people who have lappies working with linux
> as to what they have, how well it works, and whether they'd buy it again in
> hindsight. Any comments on the A10 would also be helpful. The pedlar
> (salesman) at the Toshiba place is quite happy that I take in a Knoppix CD
> and try it.
> 
I picked up a Tosh A10 Q3 last year and it works a treat.  Knoppix makes
it sit up and do all the tricks.  I installed debian which was a bugger-
The debian installer is sooo old it didn't want to know about the
network card but it got sorted in the end (thanks again Nick).  I have a
few niggling issues with the debian install (video & sound mainly) that
I haven't had time to look at properly but Knoppix didn't have any
problems so it's probably just a kernel or config issue.  Haven't looked
at 3d video- but that's often a problem no matter what you have.

If you're price shopping (who doesn't?) try computercybershop.com.au.  I
have delt with them three or four times without any problems.  They seem
to know what they are doing when it comes to laptops.

> Thanks
> RichardM
> 
> 
No problem,

Tim Bowden